Meghan Markle’s estranged half-brother slams ‘malarkey stories’ about her childhood in new Netflix show: ‘Nobody’s buying it’

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Meghan Markle’s estranged half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr., has slammed the “malarkey stories” she shared about her childhood in her new Netflix series, “With Love, Meghan.”The Duchess of Sussex’s highly anticipated cooking series premiered on the platform Tuesday, which saw her share her tips and tricks for hosting at home.The “Suits” alum, 43, called herself a “latchkey kid” and opened up about her modest childhood to connect with viewers, claiming she “grew up with a lot of fast food and TV tray dinners.”“It feels like such a different time, but that was so normal with the microwavable kids meals,” Meghan says in the series.The former working royal added that she often reached for meals from Pollo Loco, Taco Bell and Jack In The Box — a claim she previously made in 2021, when she revealed that she “grew up on the $4.99 salad bar at Sizzler.”However, the revelation did not sit right with her estranged half-brother, who took aim at Meghan’s attempt at relatability.“That’s just another one of the malarkey stories she sold to the royal family for sympathy,” Thomas Jr.

told TalkTV. “We weren’t poor. She didn’t have to rub two nickels together at Sizzler’s salad bar.”“The entire world knows how she treated her family, especially her father, who gave her everything.

That’s why nobody’s buying it,” added Thomas Jr., who hasn’t spoken to the duchess in over a decade.Thomas Jr. admitted that while he sat down to watch his estranged half-sister’s Netflix show, he soon “realized there’s something better I could be doing with my time.”“Everybody’s going to watch the first episode, and it’ll be the worst critically acclaimed episode of all time,” he said.